European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in a Story of matrimonial difficulties with a Western setting of the late 1880s now showing in the zone the sea of grass powerful scenes of the cattle country relies on its starring team an overlong two hours and often ponderous epic of the struggle Between cattlemen who would preserve the and the homesteaders who would Fence things is the most recent Mem vehicle for the dramatic starring team of Hepburn and the Story is taken from the Conrad Richter opening with powerful and impressive vistas of the Western grass lands and scenes of a lawsuit Between the two the Story soon dwindles away into the personal dissection Between a Man and wife who have taken opposite sides in the conflict so what appears at first glance to be a drama of the wild West turns out to be the Story of a family relation land preoccupied a Strong willed and slightly errant their under standing an irresponsible illegitimate 14 son with a socially conscious lawyer As the third of the Triangle and necessarily part of the family any film with both miss Hepburn and Tracy is not to be tossed off and though the plot has tendencies to they both give spark and feeling to numerous unfortunately much of tracks time is spent listening to the strange tales told him by the sea of grass and most of miss Hepburn energies in the final portions of the film Are devoted to writing the members of the supporting cast perform their respective roles though the lines they Art required to repeat give Little Chance for there is Melvyn Douglas As the Ladys making the Best of a altruistic character Robert Walker As the Reck less doomed to an Early end Phyllis the reuniting influence and probably the most at Home in a Harry Carey As the understanding Frontier the moviegoer will find much suffering and tragedy in these humourless Only slightly relieved As husband and wife end the Saga by preparing to spend their remaining years gazing at the Prairie one is left with the feeling that Hollywood struggled hard but not too successfully to keep the pieces and that the final bit of Sticky paper is extremely a rambling Book has become a loosely Strung but the Many engrossing the grandeur of the landscape and excellent performances by the stars make it Worth two hours in a darkened providing the Bench int too
